Petermann ice shelf may not recover after a future breakup
Floating ice shelves buttress inland ice and curtail grounded-ice discharge. Climate warming causes melting and ultimately breakup of ice shelves, which could escalate ocean-bound ice discharge and thereby sea-level rise. Should ice shelves collapse, it is unclear whether they could recover, even if...
Published in: | Nature Communications |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2022
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9085824/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35534467 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29529-5 |